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At this time, Jack Jones Literary Arts does not publicize self-published authors or children's picture book authors, including middle grade books. We do not publicize inspirational books, religious texts, self-help, or business books. We are publicizing poetry collections by invitation only.

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Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages—bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers—be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness: “Let me call my anxiety, desire, then. / Let me call it, a garden.” In this new lyrical landscape, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to its dark edges, the astonishing dunefields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality.

Diaz defies the conditions from which she writes, a nation whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasure of bodies like hers and the people she loves: “I am doing my best to not become a museum / of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out. // I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.” Postcolonial Love Poem unravels notions of American goodness and creates something more powerful than hope—a future is built, future being a matrix of the choices we make now, and in these poems, Diaz chooses love.

In the last 18 months, many people have recognized the need to talk about race and found value in Oluo’s blend of personal anecdote, historical research and policy recommendation. So You Want to Talk about Race has been selected as a community read by dozens of municipalities and organizations across the country, and many universities as well. It has been embraced by the business community, suburban book clubs, and affinity groups for people of color. It was featured on more than a dozen “best of” lists and earned rave reviews from Library Journal to Vogue (please see below). Oluo has been approached time and again by people of color to thank her for putting words to their lived experience, and providing tools for those incredibly difficult conversations. White readers have thanked her for helping them on their own journeys to become more actively anti-racist.

Eighteen months later, the book is as urgent as ever. How do we talk about solutions for today’s problems without getting caught in the past? How do we address vast differences in racial perspective and experience? When we try to talk about race, these unanswered questions and hundreds like them make it likely that the discussion will end in hurt feelings, damaged relationships—maybe even violence. As a “writer, speaker, and internet yeller” on race and social justice issues, Ijeoma Oluo knows the pitfalls, and she’s seen the fallout when the conversations don’t go well. She’s also seen what’s possible when connections are made across the divide, and she’s urging us to keep trying.